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Thursday, October 23, 2014

Operation Duggar Nail Party

Last week on 19 Kids and Counting, Britney Armer hosted a Jamberry nail party for the Duggar women. How did the ladies interact at the party? What colors did they choose for their manicures? What was Johannah's reaction to having her nails done? Britney was kind enough to write a guest blog post about her afternoon with the Duggars.

I know the family
because of mutual friends. Anna and I were really close before she moved to
D.C. Jill I met when she was a doula's apprentice and helped with the birth of
my 2nd baby. She also helped as a midwife's apprentice (with Venessa- my best
friend) with the birth of my 3rd.

Venessa sent me the invitation to Jill’s wedding
shower. Immediately, my mind began to work, trying to figure out what to buy
Jill and Derrick as a wedding gift. After talking to Venessa for a while about
it, I decided against something off their registry or just something nice from
the store. They had been so blessed beyond words by all their friends and
family already! So what do you give the girl who doesn’t need anything? You
give a service.

I hadn’t been with Jamberry very long at this point, only about 8 weeks.
Business was great though, and I had some free product I could redeem for them.
I offered to give the bridal party their wedding manicures. I chatted with
Jana, Michelle, Jill, and Jinger at the shower, and it was settled. Operation
Jamberry for Duggars was a go!

The girls chose White Tips and Gold Crisscross, and I ordered the few sheets we
needed. When I learned that the party would be filmed (something I didn’t know
about up to this point), I contacted Jamberry to make sure I knew how to handle
it! Jamberry was so excited about this opportunity that they donated thousands
of dollars’ worth of product for the party! I was so excited!

The day came and set up began! We had the party at Venessa’s house in her
living room. We cleared out the wedding flowers they were working on and
started unpacking. The room was soon filled with ribbons, and application kits,
and Jamberry Mini Heaters, and wraps, and lacquers arranged just right. We ran
power strips down the center of the table for the Mini Heaters and prayed the
breakers didn’t blow a fuse!

Finally, it was time! The youngest
was Johanna, and we had all the older girls too- Joy, Jinj, Jessa, Jill, Anna, Jana,
Michelle, then Grandma afterwards and Amy on the day of the wedding.

The girls shuffled through the dozens of designs
available. Some were drawn to the lacquer lines. Some wanted bright. Some
wanted classic. Michelle couldn’t choose, so she decided to try them ALL (or
just nearly)! Jill, Anna and Jana decided to go with White Tips. Jill loved the
other designs, but told me that she wanted her engagement ring to be the center
of attention, not her manicure. Jinger went a little more bold, with Mint Green
& Gold Horizontal Pinstripe. Johannah chose Hint of Mint Lacquer. The
other girls chose their designs and we were off!

I explained the application process, then they got
started. Everyone did really well! Anna, Jana, and Jill cranked out their
manicures in just a little bit, then went on to help some of the other girls.

I'm loud, so I was told several times by the camera crew to be quiet. Having
me mic'd is a poor choice ;) I'm the friend you don't put on speaker phone. It
was quiet for the most part. There were a few conversations going around the
table- like one with Anna and Jill about Jill's impending first kiss with
Derrick. Anna asked Jill if she was nervous or wanted any pointers. Jill said
she wasn't nervous at all and was confident that she would figure it out.

My best memory of the entire day was seeing
Michelle with her finished manicure. She had a different color and design on
every finger! Her choices ranged from sparkles, to metallics, to clear wraps
over lacquers, and more! The best part was when she backed up and saw her pinky
nails. She chose to layer White Min Polka over Blush lacquer. She had been so
excited the whole party, but the minute she saw those polka dots, she squealed
like a little girl and bounced up and down in her chair! She kept giggling and
saying, “My polka dots! I just LOVE them!”

Hanny was cold and tired during the party. She hugged her Jamberry Mini Heater
and tried to warm up. She eventually fell asleep on the couch. All the wedding
hubbub is hard on the young ones. She LOVED the nails though! Time flew
by, and before we knew it, they were off on another wedding adventure! I started
cleaning up the party and heard a knock at the door. Grandma Duggar came in and
got the royal one-on-one treatment. We had a nice chat, she got her Silver
Floral wraps over Frosting lacquer, and she left.

Amy Duggar had to work the
day of the party. I sent an application kit and several sheets of wraps home
with Grandma Duggar to give to her. Grandma said she just hoarded the wraps and
Amy never got hers. So after she got her hair done, she applied Vintage Chic,
Blush Lacquer under Gold Fishnet, and Mint Green & Gold Horizontal
Pinstripe.

After the party, I packed up all the leftover
Jamberry goodies, packed them in gift bags and sent took them to the family.
One bag went to Jill, one to the family, and one to Anna.

The day of the wedding came,
and Michelle called me. She decided that her manicure choices were going to
outshine the bride. She took them off, and there in the bridal suite, she redid
her manicure to be more appropriate for the mother of the bride. Jinger also
had her non-Jamberry pedicure get damaged, so we got her a White Tip pedicure
wrap to cover up the damage.

The best memory space of the whole day had been seeing Michelle with the girl finished manicure. She experienced a different color and style on each and every finger! The girl choices ranged from sparkles, to metallic, to clear wraps over lacquers, and more!

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